Social Security in Everyday Life (5 ECTS)
Code: SX00BZ87-3006
General information
- Enrollment
- 02.05.2019 - 31.05.2019
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 01.08.2019 - 31.12.2019
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 ECTS
- Virtual portion
- 2 ECTS
- Mode of delivery
- On-campus and online
- Campus
- Myllypurontie 1
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Social Services
- Teachers
- Katja Ihamäki
- Course
- SX00BZ87
Learning outcomes
Students will identify the most common risks to social exclusion and their impact on people’s possibilities to manage their lives. They will know how to apply social security options to individuals’ everyday lives.
Content
Reducing the welfare gap. Social security options in high-risk life management situations: unemployment, illnesses, disability, immigration, youth at the risk of social exclusion.
Teaching methods
Contact teaching and networking in moodle.
Participation in contact teaching 80 %
Assignments: related to social security in moodle and to working life.
Exam
Location and time
Contact teaching in Myllypuron kampus and network in moodle.
Learning materials and recommended literature
Social Policy in challenging times. Economic crisis and welfare systems. Eds. Kevin Farnsworth ja Zoë Irving. The Polity Press. 2011.
- Social Work. Themes, Issues and Critical Debates. Eds. Robert Adams etc. Palgrave. 2009
- Cross-cultural Rehabilitation. An International Perspective. Ed. Ronnie Leavitt. W. B. Saunders. 1999
- Social Security in Finland. Niemelä and Salminen. Kela. 2006
- Personal Budget, Pubications: http://henkilokohtainenbudjetointi.fi/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Henkil%C3%B6kohtaisen-budjetoinnin-kehitt%C3%A4miseen-liittyvi%C3%A4-julkaisuja-lyhyt-kooste-marraskuu-2017.pdf
- Vastavuoroinen sosiaalityö. 2016. Gaudeamus. Ed. Marjatta Törrönen etc.
- Socca - The Centre of Excellence on Social Welfare in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area http://www.socca.fi/in_english
Exam dates and retake possibilities
Re exam days
Student workload
Contact teaching 12 h
Network (teaching material in moodle) and assignments 70 h
Exam 55 h
Further information for students
The key to Moodle Arki2019
Contact teaching and networking, assignments:
Lecturer Katja Ihamäki
- Fri 23.8. at 12.45-16 MP5027
- Fri 30.8. at 12.45-16. MP2019
- Wed 18.9. at 12.45-15. Exam MP5027
Assessment methods and criteria
Contact teaching, teaching material in moodle, assignments and literature:
Exam: contact teaching and literature.
Literature:
- Moodle-material (not social security, assignments 1-5)
- Elsa Keskitalo & Päivi Vuokila-Oikkonen (2018): Voimavaralähtöisyys sosiaalisen kuntoutuksen viitekehyksenä 84-96.
- Päivi Vuokila-Oikkonen & Elsa Keskitalo (2018): Sosiaalisen kuntoutuksen voimavara- ja ratkaisukeskeiset menetelmät.164-176. Sosiaalisen kuntoutuksen näkökulmia ja mahdollisuuksiaHarri Kostilainen & Ari Nieminen (toim.). Diak. Työelämä 13.
Saatavilla myös verkossa: https://www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/141721/Diak_Tyoelama_13_verkko.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y
- Anna Metteri, Pekka Karjalainen ja Minna Strömberg-Jakka: Tiekartta 2030. Aikuisten parissa tehtävän sosiaalityön tulevaisuusselvitys (STM:n raportteja ja muistioita 2019:41). http://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/161612
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
Assessment:
Assessment criteria as the attachment of the curriculum.
The teacher of the study unit informs the assessment criterias in the beginning of the study unit.
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Assessment:
Assessment criteria see the attachment.
The teacher of the study unit informs the assessment criterias in the beginning of the study unit.